Growing up, my Mum and I used to make muffins together. As the stories go, when I was really little (around 2 years old), she didn’t know what to do with me to keep me occupied all day. So we made muffins.

I was small enough to sit under the counter without my head touching the bottom of the kitchen cabinets. So my Mum would stick me there, out of the way, and we’d make muffins.

My favourites were always her Apple Pie Muffins — they had a butter/brown sugar/cinnamon topping that was just perfection.

I’ve channeled those flavours into these healthier muffins, that still provide a good hit of nostalgia — whether you made muffins with your Mum or not, apple and cinnamon seems to bring back earlier memories for just about everyone.